Here's Dan Peyton's Ride (click) at the Levy Sheet Music Collection - it's supposed to be another song about the Johnstown Flood. Anybody want to transcribe it?



The Jamestown Flood entry in the Digital Tradition apparently came from these two sources:

Franz Lee Rickaby: Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy (1925? reprinted Clearfield Company, Baltimore 1993)

Louise Pound: American Ballads and Songs (1920 reprinted 1972, Charles
Scribner's sons, New York)

Anybody able to check these two sources to see if we have the city right?

-Joe Offer-

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Here is the Traditional Ballad Index entry that is cited above.:

Johnstown Flood, The [Laws G14]

DESCRIPTION: A distraught father tells a stranger about his share of the Johnstown tragedy. He, his wife, and his children had sought shelter from the flood in the upper part of the house, but the waters tore them from his grasp. He was rescued, but his family died
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE:
KEYWORDS: flood death family
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
May 31, 1889 - The Great Flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills about 2500 people
FOUND IN: US(MA,MW,NE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Laws G14, "The Johnstown Flood"
LPound-ABS, 61, pp. 135-138, "The Jamestown Flood" (1 text)
DT 825, JAMESFLD
Notes: Laws believes this to be too literary to be a purely folk composition; he suspects it of having been originally printed in a newspaper.
A popular piece of 1889 was "The Johnstown Flood" of Joe Flynn; I haven't seen a copy to compare. - RBW
File: LG14

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The entry in the Ballad index is based on Laws, and on LPound-ABS -- Louise Pound, American Ballads and Songs (1922). Apparently, Pound also calls it the "Jamestown Flood." Any clarification?

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In case anybody's puzzled, I consolidated the two threads on this song